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mixed with the top leaves; pedicels £-| in. long, thickened 

 upwards. Flowers seen only in an early stage. Sepals 4, orbi- 

 cular, much imbricated, blackish, glabrous, decussate, £ in. long. 

 Petals scarcely different from the sepals, more oblong, thinner in 

 texture. Stamens very numerous, inserted beneath the disk in 

 a single row ; filaments filiform, £ in. long ; anthers small, orbi- 

 cular, versatile. Ovary flat on the top, 2-celled ; ovules about 3 

 in a cell, axile. Style slender, cylindrical, ^ in. long. Stigma 

 black, capitate. — Baron 2412 ! 



SlMPHONIA (ChRYSOPIa) ACUMINATA, n. Sp. 



Glabra, ramulis gracilibus, foliis petiolatis obovato-oblongis acuminatis, 

 venulis crebris erecto-patentibus, umbellis terminalibus 4-8-floris, pedi- 

 cellis flore triplo longioribus, calycis parvi rubelli segraentis ovatis, petalis 

 latis rubellis calycem triplo superantibus, disco patellaeformi, filamentis 

 monadelphis, antheris 15 lanceolatis tubo 2-3plo brevioribus, lobis stig- 

 matosis stellatim patulis. 



A tree, with slender subterete woody branchlets, glabrous in all 

 its parts. Leaves opposite, shortly petioled, moderately firm in 

 texture, green on both surfaces, 2-3 in. long, %-l in. broad above 

 the middle, remarkably acuminate, deltoid at the base, with 

 close fine erecto-patent veins clearly visible on the lower surface. 

 Flowers 4-8 in an umbel from the axils of the leaves at the end of 

 the branchlets ; pedicels |-| in. long. Calyx £ in. in diameter, 

 bright red ; sepals ovate, much imbricated, ^ in. long. Petals 

 bright red, g in. long. Anthers 15, lanceolate, ^ lin. long; fila- 

 ments all united in an ampulheform tube; disk patellaeform ; 

 stigmatic lobes 5, cylindrical, stellate, i line long. — Baron 2890 ! 

 2921 ! Closely allied to S. pauciflora and eugenioides. 



Rhodol^na acutifolia, n. sp. 



Arborea, glabra, foliis breviter petiolatis oblongis rigide coriaceis acutis, 

 floribus l-2nis terminalibus, bracteis caducis, pedieellis brevibus incras- 

 satis, bracteolis 2 minutis ovatis adpressis persistentibus, sepalis magnis 

 coriaceis oblongis obtusis glabris, petalis obovatis purpureis calyce sesqui- 

 longioribus, genitalibus petalis paulo brevioribus. 



An erect tree, glabrous in all its parts, with slender, terete, 

 woody branchlets. Stipules deciduous before the flowers appear ; 

 petiole short, rugose ; blade 2-3 in. long, l-li in. broad at the 

 middle, thick, rigidly coriaceous, lucent, with fine erecto-patent 

 veinlets. Flowers 1-2 at the end of short branchlets ; bracts 



